Games and patches HAVE to be certified by both Sony for their Playstation and by Microsoft for their XBox. Based on hearsay from the BF3 community, each patch certification costs around $10K-$40K. With BF3, this was a disaster for the PC playerbase. Patches became infrequent, and BALANCING ISSUES remained in the game until the next patch rolled around months later.

Everyone knows SOE breaks stuff with patch releases, then quick-fixes them in the following days. Now issues like hardware performance may get caught by the Sony certification system, but balancing between vehicles, classes, weapons, bases, maps, etc... will NOT. If something gets balance broken in a patch, it'll probably stay in the game until the next big patch.

I don't really care if Planetside 2 is released on the PS4. I don't think it will cannibalize the PC playerbase all that much. And it is quite likely that the exposure to the console crowd may increase the PC playerbase some. At the very least, it will guarantee a good income for SOE so they can continue to develop the game in the long term.

The only caveat to all this is how patches get managed as the game becomes multi-platform. Learn from DICE's mistakes with BF3. Use the PC platform to test the balancing... IE: keep patching it frequently. Then take that content and push it to console once it's proven. Don't do it all at the same time with promotions for certain platforms. That has already been proven to be an unefficient process.

This is true with the difference being that DICE is part of EA... which is neither part of Sony or Microsoft. BF3 was slowed down by console patching, but that doesn't neccessarily mean that it will be the same for PC and PS4. SOE created Planetside 2. They may not choose to have patches roll out at the same rate for both systems.

Does anyone know how SOE handles DCUO? It's on both console and PS3. Do they only push patches to both at the same time? What happens if one patch breaks a system more than the other?

Get your umbrellas mfers because the sky is falling!!
the PC version hasn't gone anywhere and isn't. Get a grip.

That's not my concern, boss. My concern is what happens medium-long term when you have a bifurcate user base and a bifurcate development team. It's good news for the franchise, and for Sony's coffers -- which is the idea, after all; this is a product, not a social service.

My concern is that the mass-console market will have a much larger user base, and be therefore much more profitable (which, again, is fine). They will necessarily claim the lion's share of development time; I've worked in IT support for 16+ years and I know whereof I speak. A good number of PC people will want to transition to the console world so they can share in the massive fights and get that first-rate service. Many won't be able to afford to. And at that point, our community -- a community of FPS fan-geeks that have been carrying the torch since 2003 -- will begin to fragment.

I'd prefer to keep it intact and grow it. I'd prefer to get gobs of newbie reinforcements we can welcome with open arms. Many of them are high-schoolers, but they're fantastically well-trained next to what we were back in the day. I'd like to meet them. I'd like to tell them about old traditions and old battles, and watch as they create new ones. I don't want to languish in a PC-only Planetside 2.0, while the console-only Planetside 2.5 thrives over there where I can't see (or shoot at) it.

I think there's room to hope that PS2 *can* be made cross-platform compatible. I think that's by far the better option for PSU, for Sony, for the development team, for the IP, and for Planetside veterans past and future. And I'd like to see a concerted, polite, persistent push for it.

That's all.

Games and patches HAVE to be certified by both Sony for their Playstation and by Microsoft for their XBox. Based on hearsay from the BF3 community, each patch certification costs around $10K-$40K. With BF3, this was a disaster for the PC playerbase. Patches became infrequent, and BALANCING ISSUES remained in the game until the next patch rolled around months later.

Everyone knows SOE breaks stuff with patch releases, then quick-fixes them in the following days. Now issues like hardware performance may get caught by the Sony certification system, but balancing between vehicles, classes, weapons, bases, maps, etc... will NOT. If something gets balance broken in a patch, it'll probably stay in the game until the next big patch.

I don't really care if Planetside 2 is released on the PS4. I don't think it will cannibalize the PC playerbase all that much. And it is quite likely that the exposure to the console crowd may increase the PC playerbase some. At the very least, it will guarantee a good income for SOE so they can continue to develop the game in the long term.

The only caveat to all this is how patches get managed as the game becomes multi-platform. Learn from DICE's mistakes with BF3. Use the PC platform to test the balancing... IE: keep patching it frequently. Then take that content and push it to console once it's proven. Don't do it all at the same time with promotions for certain platforms. That has already been proven to be an unefficient process.

This is pretty awesome news never though it come to ps4, this makes my decision harder whether to get a ps4 or xbox one.

I wonder why better Multicore Support wasn´t there from the beginning.